PDR stands for Paintless Dent Removal, it is regarded as an art throughout the automotive industry and takes an enormous amount of skill to perform. It has been used and developed over decades during the
car production process. Special tools are used to access the dent from behind to massage the panel back to its original form without damaging the paint. In areas where using this technique is not
possible, for example the roof rails, a specialised glue system is used to ‘pull’ the dent out. The use of a reflective light source, such as an LED lamp, is used by the technician to pinpoint the location of their tool on the backside of the panel in order to manipulate the metal back to its original factory finish state.